Tag: Citrix

Exploiting our Citrix farm with Grafana

Good, I leave you a post where we see how we can exploit the information stored by Citrix in its databases. As I imagine you know, Citrix stores in a database the records of what happens on our Citrix farm, but that is true, as much as you pay, as much as you get, that is, which depends on the Edition we have, Citrix will store information in those databases for 1 week, or 1 month or 1 year. Here we will see how to make our own panels with Grafana and without date limits!

A podcast for IT – How to enable remote work in the company

You have at your disposal the second episode of A Podcast for YOU, where Fede Cinalli and I will give continuity to the first talk we had. Basically because we fall short of expectations, And one thing was that companies could use it and another what has happened this week, that all companies close due to the coronavirus except for the fundamental ones and those that can telework, is your company out? So we have been forced to comment a bit on what options there are and what companies are doing today…

Managing OS Layers, platform, apps and user with Citrix App Layering

Citrix App Layering is a new solution from Citrix for designing our OS layers., Software or User Data. In January 2017 Citrix acquired Unidesk, in order to have a tool that allows us to reduce the number of images to be kept, both in desktop pool environments and RDHS servers. We will arrange the OS in separate layers, the tools and drivers that are needed, as well as isolating each app in different layers; which we can then associate and deliver as we see fit, either per user or per VDA machine. We will be able to have a single layer of our corporate Windows, that when we need to update we will do it only once, and we will display it to the rest of the images.

Enabling two-factor authentication with SMS2 (free) and NetScaler Gateway

In this post we are going to see something fabulous, let's see how to enable 2FA or two-factor authentication in NetScaler Gateway, forcing users to use an additional Token for corporate access to the organization. We will use SMS2 which is a free tool, which through RADIUS will validate the user tokens, we'll use software tokens using the Google Authenticator app on mobile, A blast!

Monitoring Citrix Licenses with Centreon

If we want to have centralized control of the licenses of our Citrix environments, we can easily do it with Centreon, as usual, we will base ourselves on a script that will run on the license server and pass its output to Centreon, this way we will know when we are going to run out of licenses and above all, we will have them under control and they will serve to justify new acquisitions.

3 Free ControlUp Tools for Citrix Environments

In this first document about the large manufacturer Control Up we will see some totally free tools that it offers us and can help us to start knowing how we have the status of our Citrix platform. See 3 interesting utilities that will help us measure the loading time of an app, Perform logon simulations to see times and an attractive tool that will give us information about what is happening in our NetScaler!

Checking the Health of Citrix VDA Machines with Centreon

All of us who work with Citrix environments know about the criticality of VDA machines, A very simple way to know your health, will be monitored with Centreon. We will be able to know the status of the VDA agent of the machines, On the one hand, you get VDA machines that have registration problems with the Delivery Controller, and also interesting if we have one in maintenance mode.

Using Citrix Optimizer

Very good tod@s! I wanted to bring you a very interesting utility for all those who use Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop environments, is called Citrix Optimizer and we will use it in order to optimize the Operating Systems that we deliver to our users. This tool that is based on OS templates, it will run directly on the VDAs and we can run it through GUI or PowerShell!